chapter four – my 30s
“Shoot for the moon, even if you miss it you’ll land amongst the stars” I have to admit when I first heard of the Canadian Olympic Foundation’s goal of “Owning the Podium” at the 2010 Olympics I was a bit taken back, it just didn’t seem very “Canadian” to me. And even though I don’t [...]
After writing my last post, I circulated it to a mailing list and had a bunch of nice responses. There was some interesting conversation and some interesting ideas, which is always a good thing. One interesting email came from a business school classmate of mine who’s working on an interesting concept to disrupt an industry [...]
There’s an interesting post on some dude’s (or dudette’s for that matter) posterous about MBA’s and start ups. The post starts off talking about a conversation that was overheard at some café in the valley where a couple of MBAs are going off about joining a start up and the fast lane to riches. The [...]
I came across an interesting post from a couple of professors from London Business School today, the post talks about rewarding decisions not just the results they create. I’m not sure about this. I think there needs to be a mix of results and behaviour but rewarding decisions can cause a state of analysis paralysis [...]
I’m a couple of pages into Guy Kawasaki’s “The Art of the Start”, it’s an easy read that’s giving me some decent food for thought. One of the concepts that I really liked was the idea that some people look through microscopes and some look through telescopes. In a big company, which has an established [...]
I’m really enjoying using the Amazon Kindle application on the iPod Touch. I’ve downloaded 3 books and read 1 full book and am halfway through the second. Reading books on an eReader is not something I thought I would really enjoy – at least not as much as I have so far. In the past [...]
Okay, this is going to be my last post around cultures in Europe, I promise (fingers crossed behind my back just in case). Tech Crunch UK Europe (sorry Mike) has a post up about Spartoo.com raising 12M Euros today, calling the company the “Zappos of Europe”, sure Zappos and Spartoo both sell shoes, have an [...]
I’ve been reading Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization (note I’ve started using Amazon Affiliate links on my blog posts as a trial) on my iPod this week, I’m really enjoying the book but I can’t help but think about where all the international examples of great companies/leaders/tribes are? This is [...]
Had an interesting back and forth this morning with my friend Natasja about best of versus prediction lists. I like being nostalgic, but my preference is for thinking forward. Natasja’s point about lists being based on the “now” and not saying anything new, is a good one. But still which trends are going to follow [...]
I love Disqus. It’s made managing comments on my blog pretty easy, between that and Facebook, I feel like I can engage with the people who read my posts pretty well. I own the conversation. I can’t always control where the discussion goes, and nor do I want to, I’m not a dictator but it’s [...]